"Valentine's Day is a day of love and we have designed out fares in line with that," Nimrat Pahwa, chef at On the Rocks restaurant at the Sheraton Park Hotel and Towers here told IANS. For two persons, the tab would be Rs.4,000 plus taxes.

The focus of the chefs at various city hotels is to whip up dishes with fig, asparagus, almond, lobster, prawn, chicken, garlic, ginger and others to accentuate the romantic mood and the libido on Feb 14th night.

"We try to make that day memorable for couples with our food acting as a catalyst," Girish Kumar, executive chef at Courtyard by Marriott here told IANS. The hotel has also designed special packages for V-Day.

"The menu is designed with exotic blend of elements to tantalise the sensual desires within," Roy Satheesan, senior sous chef at Sheraton Park Hotel told IANS.

At the Sheraton Park Hotel's 24-hour restaurant Cappuccino, the chefs have designed aphrodisiac vegetarian and non-vegetarian dinner menu for V-Day like charred corn and avocado salsa on tortilla crisps drizzled with jalapeno honey, fresh green asparagus veloute accented with lemon thyme, mace; and toasted almond slivers and ratatouille lasagna made with sun-dried tomato and mascarpone cream.

At Ramada Chennai Egmore hotel, the four-course libido enhancing meal is priced at Rs.2,999 plus taxes for couple and there will be a live Bulgarian band, Y. Prakash, Chandran, general manager told IANS.

Meanwhile, specialty restaurants like Benjarong Thai and BBQ Chicken too have announced special menus for Valentine's Day.

Benjarong will be offering special menu for V-Day that includes watermelon and litchi mocktail or non-alcoholic wine, vegetarian and non-vegetarian starters, choice of soup, prawn green curry, fish in garlic and crushed chilli flakes, Phad Thai vegetable curry with steamed rice.